Op-ed by Peter Children –
Death
There is nothing that compares to death; the finality surrounding it is overwhelming, inconsolable beyond comparison. This can’t be compared to eating the last piece of apple pie, then there is no more. You can always make another pie.
I know you can say we can make another person, but there is a reason why we all have different fingerprints. It is because it is because we are all different and that is the most unique part of life. We can all look somewhat alike when it comes to fingers and toes but it stops right there.
There is nothing darker than death; no shade of black even comes close, no dark night, no dark sky. Death knocks you down and sweeps you off your feet no matter how much you prepare for it. It is stronger than any hurricane force ever recorded, it literally takes your breath from you, leaving you gasping for air.
Death is always with you, it sits at the empty chair at the table, it sleeps in your bed every night right next to you. It goes with you no matter where you go; cares not if you are young or old, man or woman, married or single, rich or poor, good or bad. It is in your face and it’s in no hurry because there is no other way out but through its door.
Did Mr. Children die? How is it Matt gets feeds from the afterlife? How much does that cost?
Peter, I was very sorry to read about Cindy’s death, she was a very classy lady!
…have decided that when I die…I just “ain’t” a gonna go…and that’s that!!!
Just think, we will be dead a lot longer then we are alive.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Why not look at it in another way? Why not “From the moment we are born, we begin to live.”?
Actually, that is what I was attempting to say in my somewhat lengthy discourse.
You were just much more succinct 🙂
“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
It is an intriguing perspective to me, but I do not look at it quite that way.
Age begins the moment you are born so technically, yes … we are dying the moment we are born because we are here for ‘X’ number of years and no-one knows how long that will be.
For the ‘X’ years that we are here, we are here to experience what we have to experience; good, bad and (often) indifferent.
Life is how we consider it to be.
(con’t)
‘It’s the half-full half-empty’ issue which follows through our entire lives and the situations we get ourselves into.
That’s why life, and people, are so colorful.
We have bright, vivid colors some days those days of blacks and greys.
But beneath this, no one is on countdown; no-one is counting their days or, they shouldn’t be.
(con’t)
Life is one day at a time.
In this sense, life is timeless because in living one day at a time we don’t count our days that have past and those days in our future.
Then there is the spiritual aspect.
And that is a complete discussion in itself.